Aimee Semple McPherson
Foursquare phenomenon
Ignatius of Loyola
Founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits)
William Booth
First General of the Salvation Army
Thomas Chalmers
Unrelenting advocate for the poor
William Tyndale
Translator of the first English New Testament
Lord Shaftesbury (Antony Ashley Cooper)
Godly English statesman
John Knox
Presbyterian with a sword
John Newton
Reformed slave trader
Catherine Booth
Compelling preacher and co-founder of the Salvation Army
Sojourner Truth
Abolitionist and women’s rights advocate
Louis IX
Saintly king of France
Blaise Pascal
Scientific and spiritual prodigy
Gregory Thaumaturgus
“The Wonder Worker”
Innocent III
Warring “Vicar of Christ”
John Huss
Pre-Reformation Reformer
Dwight L. Moody
Revivalist with a common touch
John Wycliffe
Medieval “protestant”
Charles Simeon
Evangelical Mentor and Model
Erasmus
Pious humanist who sparked the Reformation
Leo I
Pope and international diplomat
Gregory the Great
“Servant of the Servants of God”
Galileo Galilei
Misjudged astronomer
Antony of Egypt
Greatest Desert Father
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German theologian and resister
Henry VIII
Defender of the faith
Francis of Assisi
Mystical founder of the Franciscans
Joan of Arc
Teenage war hero with visions
Boniface
Apostle of Germany
John Chrysostom
Early church’s greatest preacher
Thomas à Kempis
Author of the most popular devotional classic
Francis Asbury
Methodist on horseback
Ambrose of Milan
Most talented bishop of the early church
Andrew Murray
Leading student in Christ’s school of prayer
Thomas Cranmer
Genius behind Anglicanism
Jacob Arminius
Irenic anti-Calvinist
Søren Kierkegaard
Christian existentialist
Fanny Crosby
Prolific and blind hymn writer
Teresa of Avila
Carmelite mystic and feisty administrator
Brother Lawrence
Practitioner of God’s presence
Columbanus
Irish missionary to Europe